IT'S DOWN TO THE FINAL TWO ON NBC'S "THE APPRENTICE," MONDAY, MAY 29 9-10 PM ET/PT

Viewers To Help Trump Determine The Next Apprentice

NEW YORK - May 25, 2006 - Lee, a business analyst and Sean, a recruitment consultant take on their toughest tasks yet on NBC's "The Apprentice," (Monday, May 29 at 9-10 p.m. ET/PT). Donald Trump will issue the final two tasks, which will unfold over the next two episodes beginning this week and resulting in the ultimate boardroom hiring of the fifth "Apprentice" on June 5, live from The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles (9:30-11pm ET).

Beginning at the end of Monday's episode and for the first time in "Apprentice" history, viewers can tell Trump who he should hire and ultimately be entered to win a Grand Prize random drawing of $30,000 by sending a text message or logging onto www.NBC.com/APPRENTICE. Viewers will have the entire week to submit their vote, as well as questions on www.NBC.com that Trump could ask the candidates during the final boardroom. The results of America's favorite candidate will be presented to Trump during the live finale before he makes his decision.

This week, Sean and Lee are reunited with their former team members and have the tough assignment of re-hiring four candidates each to help them with their final task. One finalist faces off with a tough executive while putting on a Pontiac celebrity hockey event benefiting the 'Dennis Leary Fire Fighter Foundation,' while the other tries to please a crowd while staging a Barenaked Ladies Concert in Atlantic City benefiting the 'World Wildlife Foundation.'

Sean (London) is leading the NBC.com voting polls with 34 percent while Lee (New York) trails behind with 22 percent.

Additionally, viewers of NBC's "The Apprentice" can roll in the dough this week with a Grand Prize random drawing of $10,000 by playing the live interactive "Get Rich With Trump" game. This week only viewers can submit who they think picked the best team by sending a text message from a cell phone or by logging onto NBC.com/APPRENTICE. Please log onto www.NBC.com for complete rules.

"Synergy" - Sean "Gold Rush" - Lee

"The Apprentice" is produced by Mark Burnett Productions. Mark Burnett, Jay Bienstock and Donald J. Trump are executive producers. Conrad Riggs and Kevin Harris are co-executive producers. Al Berman is executive producer of the live finale.

there's always someone there to sabotoge the process...but in the long run there has never been an event that didn't go on....only event that flopped was the one that didnt' do any fund raising last year with whast her face! hello this event is to make money!!

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EXACTLY Cole. You are so right. But, I think its more of a "They put a Jew in charge", she seems really racist to me. I hope she is run over by a bus!!

By the way, I think Sean is doing a much better job!Rob

Me too, Rob! Sean is doing better so far. He's LOTS more organized. He's the ONLY one I've liked this whole boring season! I threw him my votes last week and really hope he wins! I haven't liked Lee all that much. Trump is right on when he keeps saying Lee is a polititian. He couldn't give a straight answer if his life depended on it. If he wins... grrrr. And God help Mr. Trump!

Re: Andrea...do you all think she was faking the nose bleed and coughing up blood? If so, she's sure a great actress with the tears and visibly all shook up.If it was all for real, I hope she's ok, but if she's faking it? How cruel...

Re: Andrea...do you all think she was faking the nose bleed and coughing up blood? If so, she's sure a great actress with the tears and visibly all shook up.If it was all for real, I hope she's ok, but if she's faking it? How cruel...

I think it was real...could have sworn I saw some blood or something on the tissue. I hope she's better also.

I'm hoping Sean is hired. I have never liked Lee the brown noser. How is it possible that he has not been fired???

Age may not be a factor with Trump as long as the person meets his criteria for the Apprentice, but in this case...Lee is immature and not Apprentice material, IMHO! If Lee pulls thru with better results than Sean...I still cannot see Trump picking him for that reason alone. America's vote will help Trump make his decision, but what if Lee has more votes than Sean, but Sean has the best project?!

I was shocked last week, that 58% of the viewers voted that Lee chose the best team, & only 42% voted for Sean!! Yikes, I thought...Lee must have BUNCHES of friends?! Carolyn was cracking up that Lee picked Peppy, the 1st guy who got fired, to be on his team! And Trump didn't even remember why he fired Peppy. Nor George! Trump said, "I hope Lee knows what he's doing, picking THAT guy!"Hey, maybe Peppy has lots of friends who are giving Lee their votes!?

Let's just hope/pray Sean pulls off an OVERWHELMING victory over Lee with both his project AND the viewer's votes!!!!!! (AND with Trump's final Interviewing!) Goooo Sean! Win it Big!

If Lee wants to win, he really needs to get his act together and instead of complaining about what the lady wants to actually come up with better ideas. Neither team has chosen anything spectacular...Pepi had given a great idea and didn't roll with it! The best line of the season from Trump last week when they were talking about Pepi...

TRUMP: "Pepi, you're fired! Did I say that?" (snicker snicker)

That was the episode with the Fusion Razor and Text messaging. Him and Stacy got fired...Pepi didn't do anything wrong on that task...he just really didn't do anything at all!!!

Sean chose Tammy only because he couldn't live without her. Honestly she isn't showing as much affection towards him and he is to her. I really don't find his attitude very professional...he should not have been involved in the in-house catering.

Out of the two..who knows who will win....I would rather see Sean win..but if Andrea doesn't come back I don't know if he will have that much hope winning! But then again Lee has lazy Lenny on his side!!

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Could there be a show where no one gets hired? We almost had one where 2 got the job, so could Donald come to his senses and fire both of them. I don't think anyone would care.

That would be awesome!! Fire them both and give Bill what the winning gig would be....

And after they did that you'll hear from George Caroline and Trump:

"That was a tough one""Yeah I think I made a good decision""Yup" "Yup"

It would at least make the show memorable and would bring me back next season for the possibility that the show could end after 2 weeks where Trump gets mad and fires everyone and brings in an All Star cast to boost ratings. LOL

Same stupid lines out of their mouths after each boardroom....

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Because sometimes the way to feel good about yourself is by making someone else feel bad. I am tired of making others feel good about themselves.